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The Knowledge That Matters
Doug's Dharma has started a series of videos on knowledge recently that I've really been liking. So far he's talked about the disconnect between conviction and valid knowing and this latest one on the deeper kind of knowing that has come up a bit here lately.
He talks about how there's a difference between information, knowing that something is true, and the deep, integrated knowledge that changes behavior. Like the knowing everyone has that we'll die one day and the knowing someone with a terminal illness has. He talks about how in the west Socrates talked about this deeper knowing, but then Aristotle talked about the difference between the intellectual knowing and doing wasn't about knowledge it was about will, and that is what caught on in western thinking.
He doesn't discount study. But says the point of practice is to integrate that information deeply so it becomes this sort of deeper, felt knowledge.
person
Re: Good and Bad People
I pose a question here:
Which is worse:
The commission of acts of evil (bad actions)
(or)
Seeing the bad/evil/negative actions (knowing such actions are bad)
and doing nothing.
A famous person said that true evil not someone doing something evil, but (aware of the evil) good people doing nothing.
Someone also said, "The easy path is to do nothing: The hard paths is to take action."
Lionduck
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
This came from a fellow named Jung:
On the one hand, I undoubtedly form part of nature, while on the other hand objective
nature is known to me as a phenomenon of my mind only.
Lionduck
Re: Maitreya — an AI Buddha?
A boulder, no matter how often awash in river waters, will never turn into a seed.
The Dalai Lama did say something quite fascinating once: if a being had the karma to be born in such a body, it would be.
Meaning, if we made some sort of vessel for a consciousness to alight, it's possible we could be inviting someone in to the cosmic-party via such a vessel.
Not the same as inventing/constructing/creating consciousness. More like, consciousness simply is, and it needs a house-with-windows to enter into.
the issue of interiority is well noted, how the roots of a plant are the genius-loci of the organism itself, i wonder what that looks to be for a robot-with-consciousness-capacity?
But anyway, don't let me feed your wishfulness, the current state of LLMs is closer to water sliding down a bumpy surface than it is to some being experiencing something, and relaying experiences back n forth.
All that said, the membrane between "self and other" is rather porous. It would be a good use of energy to keep a bunch of virtuous monks on staff at the data center. I'm confident their strength would permeate into the rest of the apparatus. But try explaining that to overconfident materialist-extremists! 
august
Re: Benefits of a Loving Mind
@august said:
Hi everybodyBuddha Shakyamuni spoke about the benefits of a lovingmind and in fact, Maitreya will attain complete unsurpassed awakening through the practice of metta or lovingkindness!
I would love to discuss metta with you.
love or metta in tantra is to weave together. in zen i try to weave wisdom of the earth with loving ways of bodhi. in example of a tantric act a tebetan seeker lore of meeting maitreya. he was walking and saw a wounded dog. the dog had maggets on him. the tibetan man acted with out thought of self, deeply moved and save the dog and magget
by using his tougue and transported the magget and in my version on his hand and carried the magget to a dead corpse. the dog transform into maytree-awe the one the tibet man was looking for. and maytreeawe says to find me in u was love absent a ego fear. from your natural boshi you were one with awareness, instinct born of loveing way to solve a problem
the leesen trust your bodhi that instinctively weeve wisdom and lovingkind ways. there is the guru mayteeawe reside in u as a tibet tantra.
Re: Is it better to believe in one life or in many?
The universe would not be what it is, if we weren’t what we are. An essential part of the whole.
Jeroen
Re: Is it better to believe in one life or in many?
We are all of the dust of the stars. We are each and all part of Life and the Universe inseparable.
This should make us humble.
This should empower us.
It does.
Lionduck
Re: Buddhist quotes
“Gautam Buddha used to say to every monk after initiating him, only one thing, for forty-two years continuously. And he must have initiated thousands and thousands of people. After accepting the person as his disciple, he would say only one thing:
Charaiveti, charaiveti.
It is a Pali word. It means, "Now walk on. Never stop; walk on. Howsoever beautiful the experience is, remember: much more is waiting for you ahead."
Charaiveti, charaiveti.
Just go on.
Experience everything, be thankful, but don't stop and never expect the same experience
again, because that is blocking your path for greater experiences.”
Jeroen
Re: Funny Stuff
@person
That hits too close to home. It should be funny, but is instead infuriatingly and terrifyingly on point.
Lionduck